Reception
The Noisy Cricket appeared in a special segment of Sci-Fi Saved My Life entitled Men in Black, discussing the possibilities of it being a reality. It also appeared on another Will Smith's movie, Wild Wild West, where Jim west returns to the "Wanderer" (The gadget-filled train) and finds that there are no guns in the secret compartment, one of the guns that is missing is the Noisy Cricket.
It also has been listed on many websites as one of the greatest sci-fi weapons.
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Famous quotes containing the word reception:
“But in the reception of metaphysical formula, all depends, as regards their actual and ulterior result, on the pre-existent qualities of that soil of human nature into which they fall—the company they find already present there, on their admission into the house of thought.”
—Walter Pater (1839–1894)
“Aesthetic emotion puts man in a state favorable to the reception of erotic emotion.... Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)
“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)